Origin

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a long time coming. It has been three years since the last entry into the franchise, but the groundwork for the third chapter in the series began five years ago right after finishing touches were put on Origins. The result is what executive producer Mark Darrah called the fantasy game BioWare always wanted to make.

He said it’s larger than Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 combined in terms of content and square footage. When it comes to speech, there are 80,000 lines of dialogue.

I had a chance to play about five hours of the campaign, and the experience was overwhelming. There’s a lot to take in with a project that partly mixes open-world design with war-campaign strategy and tactical combat. It’s unusual to say the least, and it will take a while for players to figure out the systems.Continue Reading →